Fwd: Re: starship-design: Fwd: FW: 100 years ago......

[Curtis Manges <clmanges@yahoo.com>]

--- Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org> wrote:
> From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:07:46 -0800
> To: starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu
> Subject: Re: starship-design: Fwd: FW: 100 years ago......
> Reply-to: Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>
> 
> KellySt@aol.com writes:
>  > In a message dated 3/20/02 11:08:41 PM, stevev@efn.org writes:
>  > 
>  > > > As to the transporter experiment
>  > > > 
>  > > > http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/
>  > >
>  > >"Quantum teleportation" means "we can take an initially unknown
> and
>  > >uncontrollable quantum state and duplicate it in two physically
>  > >separated locations, such that when we measure them they are
> observed to
>  > >be identical and to collapse 'simultaneously'".  This is a far
> cry from
>  > >making a Star Trek "transporter".
>  > 
>  > Not really.  Both create a exact duplicate of the origional
> particles at the 
>  > remote site.
> 
> No it doesn't.  Quantum teleportation is just about creating
> correlation
> in a multiparticle system; it's not duplicating particles, but
> producing
> correlated pairs in separate locations.  The "teleportation" is of
> quantum state; it doesn't move matter around.
> 
>  > The problem is you can only do it a particle at a time, hence 
>  > replicating a full object would take a rediculas amount of time.
> I.E. the 
>  > systems useless for that.


Don't beam me up, Scotty, just send the shuttle.

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